Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the price-currant of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they will give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them...
...What is the price-curran, of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate and they regret, and sometimes they petition, but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most they will give only a cheap vote...to the right, as it goes by them...
...American exodus generated a number of implausible episodes of confusion and enterprise. One of the most unlikely involved William Gaylord and Paul Chiapparoni, employees of Electronic Data Systems, Inc., a Dallas-based computer company headed by a flamboyant patriot-chairman, H. Ross Perot. Arrested just before New Year's Day, the two men had been clapped into Tehran's Qasr jail, which then housed 11,000 prisoners. Unable to secure the men's release through State Department channels...
...prophetic pessimism of Conrad's fiction can be traced to his youth; a child of the 19th century, he was tossed about in true 20th century fashion. Born in the Ukraine in 1857, he quickly became a pawn to a larger power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven, the boy felt the full force of his father...
...matches so decisively in the finals. The win was the first in six years for the American team, which has been shunned by top pros, such as Jimmy Connors, who prefer to play elsewhere. (The Cup pays only $2,000, plus expenses.) But McEnroe thoroughly enjoyed the role of patriot athlete. "When you see your flag and they play your national anthem, it's a little different," he says. And McEnroe also liked the sensation of contributing to a team victory: "That's really a nice feeling. There's not really that much of that kind of thing in tennis...